System and method for providing answers to questions

EW Brown, D Ferrucci, A Lally, WW Zadrozny - US Patent 8,275,803, 2012 - Google Patents
Question Processing answers, and for each candidate answer, the data corpus is traversed
to find those passages having candidate answer in addition to query terms. All candidate …

Providing answers to questions using multiple models to score candidate answers

EW Brown, DA Ferrucci, JW Murdock IV - US Patent 8,819,007, 2014 - Google Patents
A method, system and computer program product for generating answers to questions. In
one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an input query; conducting a search to …

System and method for providing question and answers with deferred type evaluation

J Fan, D Ferrucci, DC Gondek, WW Zadrozny - US Patent 8,332,394, 2012 - Google Patents
A system, method and computer program product for conducting questions and answers
with deferred type evaluation based on any corpus of data. The method includes processing …

Providing answers to questions using multiple models to score candidate answers

EW Brown, DA Ferrucci, JW Murdock IV - US Patent 8,738,617, 2014 - Google Patents
A method, system and computer program product for generating answers to questions. In
one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an input query; conducting a search to …

Question answering from structured and unstructured data sources

P Stubley, MF Boston, RS Crouch… - US Patent 10,303,798, 2019 - Google Patents
Techniques for question answering involve receiving, from a user, a text input expressing a
question in natural language. The text input may be analyzed, including identifying in the …

System for knowledge acquisition

PV Haley - US Patent 10,452,779, 2019 - Google Patents
A system and method that translates sentences of natural language text into sets of axioms
of formal logic that are consistent with parses resulting from NLP and acquired constraints as …

Providing answers to questions including assembling answers from multiple document segments

EW Brown, J Chu-Carroll, DA Ferrucci… - US Patent …, 2017 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method, system and computer program product for gen erating answers
to questions. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an input query, identifying …

Generating secondary questions in an introspective question answering system

BK Boguraev, DW Buchanan, J Chu-Carroll… - US Patent …, 2020 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method of generating secondary questions in a question answer system.
Missing information is identified from a corpus of data using a computerized device. The …

System and method for providing answers to questions

EW Brown, D Ferrucci, A Lally, WW Zadrozny - US Patent 8,768,925, 2014 - Google Patents
Providing answers to questions based on any corpus of data implements a method that
generates a number of candidate passages from the corpus that answer an input query, and …

System and method for providing answers to questions

EW Brown, D Ferrucci, A Lally, WW Zadrozny - US Patent 9,703,861, 2017 - Google Patents
Abstract System and method for providing answers to questions based on any corpus of
data implements a method that generates a number of candidate passages from the corpus …